Hotel Villas Gaia, home base to discover the natural beauty of Costa Rica´s southwest coast. Offers 14 colorful bungalows (casitas) separately nestled in a jungle setting offering privacy and comfort. Hill top swimming pool with ocean view. Private jungle trail to the beach of Tortuga. Gourmet restaurant.Strategic location on the new scenic coastal road.
Convenient access to Ballena Marine National Park, Caño Island Biological reserve, Corcovado National Park, the mangroves of the Terraba-Sierpe rivers, waterfalls, coastal rainforest, deserted beaches, typical villages and much more. Hotel Villas Gaia offers 14 delightful casitas, designed to harmonize with their forest surroundings and accented with the vibrant colors of the tropics. Sitting on your terrace you'll be able to watch sloth's, toucans, white faced monkeys, macaws and numerous other wildlife..
Hotel Villas Gaia is participating actively in the Certification program for Sustainable Tourism (CST), a program of the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT = Instituto Costaricense Turismo) designed to categorize and diferenciate tourism business in Costa Rica according their level of operating in a sustainable model, in relation with the natural, cultural and social resources.
For each and every one of these items a list of specific questions was designed to help evaluate how thoroughly the tourism company complies with a series of standards previously established for the social, environmental and economics fields. Each and every one of the questions refers to an element of sustainability with which the firm should comply in order to qualify in any one of the different stages or levels of fulfillment, which for our purposes we have labeled "levels". The final rating will be assigned to the company in question according to the lowest level achieved in any of the four fields evaluated.
For Hotel Villas Gaia, the main purpose of participating in the CST program is to able to convert the sustainable concept into something real, practical and necessary. To implement this program we formed a project team (ProVerde Gaia) and invited an expert (Margherita Botazzi, biologist / consultant Armonia Natural) to train us to be able to make our own Manuel of Practical Guidelines for our daily work at Hotel Villas Gaia. The experience of ´transforming´ our Hotel Villas Gaia into a sustainable hotel is motivating. We promote an active participation in this process with our guests .All ideas and comments are highly welcomed. We appreciate your support!
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